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What makes you think I have a solution? [b] My goal is to identify emerging trends and use them to my family's advantage.[/b]  I do think the area is going to have to get a heck of a lot more dense, because population growth in the DC area is slated to be among the nation's highest over the next few decades.  I think that in a decade or so DC is going to be almost uniformly upper middle-class, and that the suburbs will become more and more starkly demarcated into neighborhoods of haves and have-nots.

On the one hand, I wish folks in the suburbs good luck with the corner they've painted themselves into over the last fifty years--and I think that if they elect smart folks, and hold to a strategy of smart-growth and targeted density, they can probably pull off a successful transformation.  [b]On the other hand, I own a house in the city, so it's in my personal financial best interest that they not do so.[/b][/quote]

The other poster asked you for constructive ideas, and your response is that you want to do your best to get yours.  Nice.[/quote]

Sorry, but US suburban culture has spent the last seventy years painting themselves into a corner, and the vast majority of folks still can't even imagine living any other way.  So, no, I'm not going to spend an inordinate amount of time obsessing over how they might unshit the bed they're lying in.  There's a Hell of a lot of research that's out there, and that smart suburban planners are attempting to implement--but they're inevitably undercut by well-meaning folks who can't help but do the wrong thing.

As I said, I'm investing in shorting the suburbs.  My guess is that it will pay off big over the coming decade or so.[/quote]

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